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‡aMcCollom, James P.,
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‡aThe last sheriff in Texas :
‡ba true tale of violence and the vote /
‡cJames P. McCollom. |
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‡aBerkeley, CA :
‡bCounterpoint Press,
‡c[2017] |
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‡a260 pages ;
‡c24 cm |
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‡aIncludes bibliographical references. |
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‡aBeeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns--the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old West justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point-blank, in the belly. Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more. Time magazine's full-page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff's extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from all across America poured into Beeville's tiny post office. Yet when a second violent incident threw Ennis into the crosshairs of public opinion once again, the uprising was orchestrated by an unlikely figure: his close friend and Beeville&'s favorite son, Johnny Barnhart. Barnhart confronted Ennis in the election of 1952: a landmark standoff between old Texas, with its culture of cowboy bravery and violence, and urban Texas, with its lawyers, oil institutions, and a growing Mexican population. The town would never be the same again. The Last Sheriff in Texas is a riveting narrative about the postwar American landscape, an era grappling with the same issues we continue to face today. Debate over excessive force in law enforcement, Anglo-Mexican relations, gun control, the influence of the media, urban-rural conflict, the power of the oil industry, mistrust of politicians and the political process--all have surprising historical precedence in the story of Vail Ennis and Johnny Barnhart. |
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‡aEnnis, Vail.
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‡aSheriffs
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‡zTexas
‡zBeeville
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‡vCase studies.
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‡aPolice misconduct
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‡zTexas
‡zBeeville
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‡aElections
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‡zTexas
‡zBeeville
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‡aBeeville (Tex.)
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‡xSocial conditions
‡y20th century.
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‡aBeeville (Tex.)
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‡xPolitics and government
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‡aBeeville (Tex.)
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‡xHistory
‡y20th century.
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‡aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Law Enforcement.
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‡aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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‡aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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‡aBiographies.
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